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Knowing how provisions of one or another customs and tax legislation are applied, protects business from financial and time losses intended for the resolution of disputes in courts. In this review … of the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union, we draw attention to the aspects related to excise duty and VAT debt for goods illegally imported into the EU from the third countries - whether it is extinguished together with the import duty debt.

Naujienos 39 savaitę: rengiamas naujas sankcijų paketas Rusijai, kuriame ir galimybė sankcionuoti asmenis, siekiančius apeiti ribojimus; Konvencijos dėl bendrosios tranzito procedūros pakeitimai; … ES ir Kosovas susitarė dėl alternatyvių PEM konvencijos taisyklių taikymo; ir daugiau aktualijų!

This article looks what the ECJ decided in its recent Case C-714/20 (U.I.). In addition, the article will analyse this case in light of the previous ECJ cases on similar matters. It also touches … upon the deductibility of the import VAT by the forwarders and carriers. Finally, the article looks at the practical implications of this case for the EU, particularly the Netherlands and some other EU Member States.

A customs warehouse stored bottled alcohol (vodka). Customs audited the warehouse, took a sample, and found that there was water instead of vodka in the bottles! Customs ordered the warehouse … to pay €308,455 customs debt (import duties and taxes, fines and interest). A dispute arose regarding who must pay the customs debt, as the customs warehouse is not obliged to take samples of the goods. Let's look at the clarification of the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania (SACL) in this case.

Naujienos 34 savaitę: pranešimas dėl tam tikriems į Sąjungą importuojamiems plieno gaminiams taikomos apsaugos priemonės įgyvendinimo; papildyti DUK dėl sankcijų Rusijai ir Baltarusijai taikymo; … PMO Privataus sektoriaus konsultacinės grupės nauja kadencija.

Aktualijos 34 savaitę: Lietuvos muitinė informuoja, kad kroviniai, kurių siuntėjai, gavėjai, vežėjai ar muitinės tarpininkai, kartą jau yra bandę apeiti sankcijas, bus vertinami, kaip didelės … rizikos ir tikrinami ypač kruopščiai.

News in week 30: restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine extended until 31 January 2023; European Commission answers questions about Russian gold … import ban; definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of molybdenum wire originating in China; definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of mono ethylene glycol originating in the USA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; investigation concerning possible circumvention of the anti-dumping measures on imports of certain hot rolled stainless steel sheets and coils originating in Indonesia; updated lists of products of animal origin subject to official controls at border control posts; and more news!

On 13.06.2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a decision in the Baltic Master case (C-599/20) on two relatively unrelated issues. The first, whether customs must establish … an objective legal relationship between the buyer and the seller in order to consider them as related persons. The second, whether customs can rely on the value of a single comparable transaction found on the national customs valuation information system (IS), denying the acceptance of the declared value of the goods (air conditioning units). In this article, we discuss interpretations provided by the CJEU; and we look forward for the national verdict of the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania (SACL).

Malonu, kad buvau pakviesta pasidalinti savo asmenine ekspertine nuomone Baltic Master bylos klausimu. Esu tikra, kad bylos eigą akylai seka ne tik leidinio redakcinė kolegija, bet ir Lietuvos … bei ES ir ne ES šalių muitinių atstovai, teisininkai, tarptautinio verslo specialistai, t. y., visi muitinės praktika besidomintys profesionalai.

Naujienos 30 savaitę: iki 2023.01.31 pratęstos ribojamosios priemonės Rusijai; Europos Komisijos atsakymai į klausimus dėl Rusijos aukso importo draudimo; atnaujinti gyvūninės kilmės produktų, … kuriems atliekama oficiali kontrolė pasienio kontrolės poste, sąrašai; tyrimas dėl galimo antidempingo priemonių, taikomų tam tikriems Indonezijos kilmės karšto valcavimo nerūdijančio plieno lakštams ir ritiniams importuoti, vengimo; galutinis antidempingo muitas Kinijos kilmės molibdeno vielos importui; galutinis antidempingo muitas ir galutinis laikinojo muito, nustatyto JAV ir Saudo Arabijos Karalystės kilmės monoetilenglikolio importui, surinkimas; ir daugiau aktualijų!

Aktualijos 30 savaitę: patvirtintos „Importuojamų prekių, skirtų nemokamai išdalyti ir naudotis nuo karo Ukrainoje bėgantiems asmenims ir Ukrainoje likusiems stokojantiems asmenims, neapmokestinimo … importo muitais ir PVM taisyklės“; leista taikyti VŠĮ „Emprekis“ 2022 m. rugpjūčio mėnesio žinyne „Autotransporto kainos Lietuvoje“ nurodytas kainas transporto priemonių muitinės vertės nustatymui ir naudoti muitinio įvertinimo kontrolės tikslams.

Customs administration shall exercise due care in analysing the facts, gathering information and evidence for the use of each of the alternative methods for determining the customs value. This … includes the duty of the customs authorities to consult all the information sources and databases available to them. Are customs authorities obliged to check information systems maintained by the EU? May identical or similar imports (which have not been challenged) of the same trader be excluded? What is the period, in which identical or similar imports are considered to be ‘made at the same or around the same time’? We look at the CJEU's answers to these questions.

If you had the chance to talk to an expert who was working on the Union Customs Code (UCC), what would you ask? … Questions we asked: What your suggestions do we find in the UCC? What are you … especially proud of about the UCC? What could have been done differently? What would be your advice for the users of the UCC? And more! Grab cup of coffee and enjoy our interview with Michael Lux.

News at a glance: cancellation of quotas and established licensing for export of rye and fertilisers; invitation to Ukraine to join the Convention on a common transit procedure and the Convention … on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods; expanded list of goods prohibited for export; EU and UK suspend import duties on Ukrainian goods; new rules of administrative responsibility for infringements of customs formalities; and more news.

Skaitytojo klausimas: Planuojame importuoti prekes iš Kanarų salų. Kadangi Kanarų salos yra Europos Sąjungoje, ar šios prekės turės būti deklaruojamos muitinei, mokami importo mokesčiai? Jei … taip, ką turėtume žinoti apie deklaravimo ir muitinės deklaracijos pildymo ypatumus?

Naujienos 25 savaitę: klasifikavimas nesukomplektuotos ar nebaigtos gaminti prekės, skirtos durų staktoms ir slenksčiams gaminti; importuojamoms Kinijos kilmės aliuminio ekstruzijoms nustatomas … antidempingo muitas; papildomi importo muitai cukraus sektoriuje; TIR konvencijos pakeitimai; pratęstas ribojamųjų priemonių taikymas, reaguojant į neteisėtą Krymo ir Sevastopolio aneksiją; ir daugiau atnaujinimų!

Aktualijos 25 savaitę: naujos inventorizacijos taisyklės, leidimas pašto siuntoms naudoti neelektronines duomenų apdorojimo priemones, naftos produktų importo draudimas iš Rusijos.

Customs classification rules are numerous, long and technically complex. No wonder both declarants and customs authorities seek guidance as to understanding these rules. This article outlines … the intricacies of hard and soft law aimed at facilitating the application of the classification provisions.

In business practice, the customs authorities often recover from the traders (business entities) (or sometimes – refuse to pay to these persons) various duties, charges, levies, or sanctions … administered by them, even though such recovery or refusing to pay them at the later date may be declared illegal, contrary to the EU law, e.g. by national courts. Accordingly, in such a situation the question arises whether such wrongly recovered and/or paid sums (customs duties, other charges, penalties) administered by the customs authorities in the EU Member States must be repaid together with additionally calculated interest for the period during which the person concerned was unlawfully deprived of the relevant sums of money? The article analyses how such issues should be addressed in the light of recent case law of the European Court of Justice (CJEU).